Peter Rudin-Burgess

All roleplaying, solo or group is about NPCs. You could play a game with just the player characters and the GM giving vivid descriptions of locations, and throwing monsters at the characters, but it would soon get very boring. NPCs get to tell the characters about the world, they face problems that need overcoming, they … Read more

Starting at 10 am DriveThruRPG Time My Cepheus Engine/Traveller Solo RPG rules will be Deal of the Day! The PDF is discounted 60%, and I have knocked as much off the paperback as I can [the recent price hikes by DTRPG for printed books makes this harder as there is little or no margin in … Read more

This is possibly one of the most important bits of advice for running horror. It is all about pacing the adventure/scenario. You start trying to build a general sense of unease, hinting that things are not quite right. Giving clues as to what may be wrong. It could be a bartender warning you not to … Read more

Partial Information is a way of hinting at what is to come, but not giving the story away. Horror is a progression. It goes from a sense of unease, where the characters suspect something bad is happening, to dread where the characters know something bad is happening. Partial information can be used to create the … Read more

By limited scope, I mean something like a one-shot or short campaign. Horror only works if there is a real possibility of losing. It is not about balanced encounters, that is fantasy, this is horror. With a new character, built for this short campaign, there is no baggage, such as having spent the past year … Read more